Lee Friedlander: ChristmasWith a healthy sprinkle of plastic and tinsel, Friedlander's visions of a commercial, uniquely American Christmas evoke both irony and nostalgia Whether or not you celebrated Christmas at some point during the last 70 years, you have no doubt encountered many of the scenes shown here in Lee Friedlander's eclectic black and white documentation of the holiday season across America. From city sidewalks to cookie cutter suburbs, Friedlander captures it

or his own base nature sends him hurtling onward in his kaleidoscopic pursuit

particularly in relation to the black community during the American civil rights movement in the 1960s

and yet in the background remains the carnage of history and the deforming bitterness of the human heart

At the heart of this production lies a postcolonial identity in exile

/ thorough sharp seas in winter nights doth pass

” ―Peter Cole

and survive a scare with a boy who doesn’t care

mesmerising picture of individual loneliness and post-World War I British society

I Found Myself: Last Dreams confirms again the richness and variety of Mahfouz's storytelling―"the single most important writer in modern Arabic literature" (Newsweek)

“I count Ronald Johnson as one of the defining peers of my own imagined company of poets

Hope I’m in for a good time

as well as supplying an essential compendium of pained